! The magazine:* MAD's parody of ''TheMortonDowneyJrShow'' (Issue #286, April 1989), called "The Moron Downer Jr. Show" deserves a mention. In the end of the parody, the Pope himself visits the show to deliver a message. The comic ended with a full page splash of the Pope ''punching Morton in the teeth''. Damn!* Issue #533, edited by Music/WeirdAlYankovic, with several articles written by him. Two of the biggest names in satire, together at last.* On a meta level, issue #539 has something that many fans have been wanting for a long time: a ''front cover'' illustrated by Tom Richmond!* Also on a meta level... in March 2016, Al Jaffee was honored by ''Guinness Book of World Records'' for being the longest continuously working cartoonist, having not stopped since ''1942''!* Another meta-level awesome. Since they were classic {{EqualOpportunityOffender}}s, they incurred reams of lawsuits...and won most of them. The rulings in their favor could fill a small library when it comes to First Amendment protection of satire and parody. * Adding to the above; the whole magazine started out of anger at censorship. The anti-comics hysteria of the 1950's led to the Comics Code, which put most forms of comics out of business and forces the handful of survivors to severely {{Bowdlerize}} their content. One of the casualties was Gaines's ''TalesFromTheCrypt,'' deemed too dark and corrupting. Queue him taking that same BlackComedy, and applying it to a ''protected'' medium of satire and parody, which allowed for him to fire shots he couldn't even get away when writing the Cryptkeeper.

! The cartoon:* WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder OWNING Andrew W.K. in ''Destroy, Bob The Builder, Destroy'' is a good example.** For a bonus, Andrew W.K is AdamWesting as himself.* "Once Upon A Toon", no question. How does MAD celebrate Cartoon Network's 20th birthday? With a character from pretty much every classic show uniting [[FusionFall once]] [[VideoGame/CartoonNetworkPunchTimeExplosion again]]! Including WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo, WesternAnimation/{{Dexter|sLaboratory}}, WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack, [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom]], even [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Numbuh 1]], and most of the time Cartoon Network just pretended KND didn't exist!** And why did they unite? [[NetworkDecay To see who's behind Cartoon Network's downfall]]. Not to mention that Stu Sny-err...[[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory Dee Dee]] claimed that it was because they needed to make room for all new shows. And this aired the week of their 20th birthday. BitingTheHandHumor doesn't even BEGIN to describe this.** Even better, Dee Dee's OverlyLongGag about showing a "sample" of ''MAD'' [[FramingDevice on a TV]], in a recursive, matrioska-esque way further hammers down the point about how MAD's pop-cultural nature is the only way the characters could possibly have been [[NetworkToTheRescue acknowledged]] and [[ReunionShow gathered.]] As a Youtube commenter pointed out, this is 50% BitingTheHandHumor, and (much more subtly) 50% [[TrollingCreator fan-trolling]]. And 100% awesome.* Rio-A: Blu gains Green Lantern powers, and gives rings to other flightless birds (Mordecai, Big Bird, etc.) to save Jewel. Awesome way to kick off Season 2.* The Fandom Nod in "My Little War Horse" with the cake that has "Go Bronies" on it, as well as getting Creator/TaraStrong to reprise her role as Twilight Sparkle.* [[Film/{{Lincoln}} Lin]][[Film/KingKong Kong]] vs [[WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant Mecha]][[Film/TheIronLady Thatcher]]. Heck of a way to start off season 4. Made even better with Linkong being voiced by ''Creator/GilbertGottfried''.** Speaking of starting off season four with a boom (or should we say, a sonic rainboom?), MAD co-aired that sketch with "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] [[Series/CrashAndBernstein and Bernstein,]] a definite CMOA for the brony community. While the FandomNod in "My Little War Horse" was awesome and the other sketches never made fun of it, this sketch ''centered'' around MLP's [[PeripheryDemographic male community]] in a positive light. But this line shows MAD has done their research: --> '''Rainbow Dash''': ...I can show you how to be [[Memes/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic 20% cooler]] by being a brony!** There's also the part where he was fighting dinosaurs.-->'''President Linkong:''' [[BringIt Anybody ELSE have any "differing opinions"?]]*** Let's just say Linkong in general was an awesome sketch.* Even in a MAD sketch ([[IAmLegend I Am]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLorax Lorax]], to be specific) WillSmith is still badass-->'''[[spoiler: Zombie!Lorax]]:''' The creatures of the forest seek revenge!-->'''Will Smith:''' Well they can revenge on ''this!''-->(''Takes a shotgun and blasts [[spoiler: zombie versions of [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby]], [[WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow Buggs and Daffy]], and [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Mojo Jojo]].]]'')* ''G.I.E.I. Joe''. They actually train ''farm animals'' to fight KOBRA.* UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington with DualWield axes fighting cherry trees. Yes.* "Animal vs Appliance" Especially when animal wins* ComicBook/LexLuthor brought [[LegionOfDoom his own cheering squad]].* [[Film/{{Arthur}} Ar]]Film/{{Thor}} rescuing Jane ''DonkeyKong'' style.* In the [[ComicBook/XMen X-]][[Series/TheMentalist Mentalist]] sketch, Wolverine get a nice BaitAndSwitch interrogation.-->'''Wolverine:''' Look, bub... [[Franchise/LawAndOrder in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups]]. (''SNIKT!'') Right claws, (''SNIKT!'') and left claws.